REPULSE MODERNISED
More Air Power and Defence Than Any Other Warship. hangars and aeroplanes. (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 14. The Sun-Herald news service says that the battle cruiser Repulse has been reconstructed after 3J years at a cost of £1,400,000. It now embodies more ait power and a greater degree of antiaircraft defence than any vessel in the British Navy. Repulse is the first of Britain's capital units to be rebuilt in accordance with up-to-date principles. Some 50 feet of superstructure abaft the second funnel has been removed to accommodate an aircraft catapult extending the full width of the deck and a lofty hangar has been built on either side of the deck. Repulse will go _to the Mediterranean on June 8, carrying four seaplanes, two in the hangars and two on the deck. Hitherto no British Warship has carried over two. Renown is returning to Portsmouth to be similarly refitted.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 114, 15 May 1936, Page 7
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